Particle Beam
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Particle Accelerator Beams
The Heavy (HPAB), Medium (MPAB), and Light Particle Accelerator Beam (LPAB) weapons are the most effective of the weapons our inherited ships came with. They are fairly quick to fire with almost light-speed effect, but not destructive enough to destroy an enemy without multiple hits. To help ensure multiple hits, they are often set in twin turrets that can either fire together for maximum effect on a shield, or offset by a fraction of a second to allow one to penetrate armor and the other to damage whatever is behind the armor that just got penetrated. Lighter ships can only carry individual guns.
By the time of Behind Enemy Lines by deGaffer (covers month 28 in the timeline) Particle Beam turrets are described as obsolete technology and "pulse cannons" were sometimes used replaced them.
The Sa'arm use this technology on their ships for point-defense weapons (ref: Pyrrhic Victory by akarge).
Story Usage
A textual analysis of the story repository, current as of 9/2019 and performed on 2019-09-23 and using SS Lib ver 1.15.08 (9/21/2019) identified the following top ten usage counts for Particle Beam:
- The First Command by Zen Master 13 instances.
- Independent Command by Zen Master 10 instances.
- Conrad's Folly by Allan Joyal 6 instances.
- Call This A Castle by Duke of Ramus 5 instances.
- Crisis at Ishtar by Allan Joyal 5 instances.
- Thrust Upon You by Justin Radically 5 instances.
- Behind Enemy Lines by deGaffer 4 instances.
- Pyrrhic Victory by akarge 4 instances.
- Living a CAP Based Present by Allan Joyal 3 instances.
- Destination Azahar by deGaffer 1 instances.
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